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Entry for Strong's #2064 - ἔρχομαι

Transliteration

érchomai

Phonetics

er'-khom-ahee

Word Origin

middle voice of a primary verb (used only in the present and imperfect tenses, the others being supplied by a kindred [middle voice] eleuthomai {el-yoo'-thom-ahee}, or [active] eltho {el'-tho}, which do not otherwise occur)

Parts of Speech

Verb

TDNT

2:666,257

Word Definition[ Thayer | Strong | Mounce ]

Thayer's Definition

to come

of persons

to come from one place to another, and used both of persons arriving

to appear, make one's appearance, come before the public

metaph.

to come into being, arise, come forth, show itself, find place or influence

be established, become known, to come (fall) into or unto

to go, to follow one

Strong's Definition

Middle voice of a primary verb (used only in the present and imperfect tenses, the others being supplied by a kindred [middle voice] word, ἐλεύθομαιeleuthomai or ἔλθωelthō ; which do not otherwise occur); to come or go (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively): - accompany, appear, bring, come enter, fall out, go, grow, X light, X next, pass, resort, be set.

a. of persons; α. universally, to come from one place into another, and used both of persons arriving — as in Matthew 8:9; Matthew 22:3; Luke 7:8; Luke 14:17 (here WH marginal reading read the infinitive, see their Introductory § 404), 20; John 5:7; Acts 10:29; Revelation 22:7, and very often; οἱἐρχόμενοικαίοἱὑπάγοντες, Mark 6:31; — and of those returning, as in John 4:27; John 9:7; Romans 9:9. Constructions: followed by ἀπό with the genitive of place, Mark 7:1; Mark 15:21; Acts 18:2; 2 Corinthians 11:9; with the genitive of person, Mark 5:35; John 3:2; Galatians 2:12, etc.; followed by ἐκ with the genitive of place, Luke 5:17 ( L text συνέρχομαι); John 3:31, etc.; followed by εἰς with the accusative of place, to come into: as εἰςτήνοἰκίαν, τόνοἶκον, Matthew 2:11; Matthew 8:14; Mark 1:29; Mark 5:38, etc.; εἰςτήνπόλιν, Matthew 9:1, and many other examples; followed by εἰς to, toward,John 20:3 f; εἰςτόπέραν, of persons going in a boat, Matthew 8:28; of persons departing ἐκ ... εἰς, John 4:54; διά with the genitive of place followed by εἰς ( Rec.πρός) to,Mark 7:31; εἰςτήνἑορτήν, to celebrate the feast, John 4:45; John 11:56; ἐν with the dative of the thing with which one is equipped, Romans 15:29; 1 Corinthians 4:21; followed by ἐπί with the accusative of place (German über, over), Matthew 14:28; (German auf), Mark 6:53; (German an), Luke 19:5; ( Luke 23:33 L Tr); Acts 12:10,12; to with the accusative of the thing, Matthew 3:7; Matthew 21:19; Mark 11:13; Mark 16:2; Luke 24:1; with the accusative of person, John 19:33; to one's tribunal,Acts 24:8 Rec.; against one, of a military leader, Luke 14:31; κατά with the accusative, Luke 10:33; Acts 16:7; παρά with the genitive of person, Luke 8:49 (Lachmann ἀπό); with the accusative of place, to (the side of), Matthew 15:29; πρός to, with the accusative of person, Matthew 3:14; Matthew 7:15; ( Matthew 14:25 L T Tr WH); Mark 9:14; Luke 1:43; John 1:29; 2 Corinthians 13:1, and very often, especially in the Gospels; ἀπότίνος (the genitive of person) πρόςτινα, 1 Thessalonians 3:6; with a simple dative of person (properly, dative commodi or incommodi (cf. Winer s Grammar, § 22,7 N. 2; Buttmann, 179 (155))): Matthew 21:5; Revelation 2:5,16 (examples from Greek authors in Passow, under the word, p. 1184 a bottom; (Liddell and Scott, under II:4)). with adverbs of place: πόθεν, John 3:8; John 8:14; Revelation 7:13; ἄνωθεν, John 3:31; ὄπισθεν, Mark 5:27; ὧδε, Matthew 8:29; Acts 9:21; ἐνθάδε, John 4:15 ( R G L Tr), 16; ἐκεῖ, John 18:3 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 472 (440)); ποῦ, Hebrews 11:8; ἕωςτίνος, Luke 4:42; ἄχριτίνος, Acts 11:5. The purpose for which one comes is indicated — either by an infinitive, Mark ( Mark 5:14 L T Tr WH); Mark 15:36>; Luke 1:59; Luke 3:12; John 4:15 ( T WHδιέρχωμαι), and very often; or by a future participle, Matthew 27:49; Acts 8:27; or by a following ἵνα, John 12:9; εἰςτοῦτο, ἵνα, Acts 9:21; or by διάτινα, John 12:9. As one who is about to do something in a place must necessarily come thither, in the popular narrative style the phrases ἔρχεταικαί, ἦλθεκαί, etc., are usually placed before verbs of action: Matthew 13:19,25; Mark 2:18; Mark 4:15; Mark 5:33; Mark 6:29; Mark 12:9; Mark 14:37; Luke 8:12,47; John 6:15; John 11:48; John 12:22; John 19:38; John 20:19,26; John 21:13; 3 John 1:3; Revelation 5:7; Revelation 17:1; Revelation 21:9; ἔρχουκαίἴδε (or βλέπε), John 1:46 (John 1:47>); John 11:34>; (and Rec. in) Revelation 6:1,3, 5,7 (also Griesbach except in Revelation 6:3); plural John 1:39 (John 1:40>) (( T Tr WHὄψεσθε), see εἰδῶ, I:1 e); — or ἐλθών is used, followed by a finite verb: Matthew 2:8; Matthew 8:7; Matthew 9:10,18; Matthew 12:44; Matthew 14:12,33 ( R G L); Matthew 18:31; 27:64; 28:13>; Mark 7:25 ( Tdf.εἰσελθεῖν); Mark 12:14,42; 14:45; 16:1>; Acts 16:37,39; — or ἐρχόμενος, followed by a finite verb: Luke 13:14; Luke 16:21; Luke 18:5. in other places ἐλθών must be rendered when I (thou, Hebrews , etc.) am come: John 16:8; 2 Corinthians 12:20; Philippians 1:27 (opposed to ἀπών). β. to come i. e. to appear, make one's appearance, come before the public: so κατ'ἐξοχήν of the Messiah, Luke 3:16; John 4:25; John 7:27,31; Hebrews 10:37, who is styled preeminently ὁἐρχόμενος, i. e. he that cometh (i. e. is about to come) according to prophetic promise and universal expectation, the coming one ( Winer s Grammar, 341 (320); Buttmann, 204 (176f)): Matthew 11:3; Luke 7:19f; with εἰςτόνκόσμον added, John 6:14; John 11:27; ἐντῷὀνόματιτοῦκυρίου, he who is already coming clothed with divine authority i. e. the Messiah — the shout of the people joyfully welcoming Jesus as he was entering Jerusalem — taken from Psalm 117:25f (Psalm 118:26> f): Matthew 21:9; Matthew 23:39; Mark 11:9; Luke 13:35; Luke 19:38 (Tdf. omits ἐρχόμενος (so WH in their first marginal reading)); John 12:13. ἔρχεσθαι used of Elijah who was to return from heaven as the forerunner of the Messiah: Matthew 11:14; Matthew 17:10; Mark 9:11-13; of John the Baptist, Matthew 11:18; Luke 7:33; John 1:31; with εἰςμαρτυρίαν added, John 1:7; of Antichrist, 1 John 2:18; of false Christs and other deceivers, false teachers, etc.: Matthew 24:5; Mark 13:6; Luke 21:8 (in these passages with the addition ἐπίτῷὀνόματιμου, relying on my name, i. e. arrogating to themselves and simulating my Messianic dignity); John 10:8; 2 Corinthians 11:4; 2 Peter 3:3; Revelation 17:10; with the addition ἐντῷὀνόματιτῷἰδίῳ in his own authority and of his own free-will, John 5:43. of the Holy Spirit, who is represented as a person coming to be the invisible helper of Christ's disciples after his departure from the world: John 15:26; John 16:7,13. of the appearance of Jesus among men, as a religious teacher and the author of salvation: Matthew 11:19; Luke 7:34; John 5:43; John 7:28; John 8:42; with the addition of εἰςτόνκόσμον followed by ἵνα, John 12:46; John 18:37; εἰςκρίμα, ἵνα, John 9:39; followed by a telic infinitive 1 Timothy 1:15; ἔρχεσθαιὀπίσωτίνος, after one, Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:7; John 1:15,27, 30; ὁἐλθώνδἰὕδατοςκαίαἵματος, a terse expression for, 'he that publicly appeared and approved himself (to be God's son and ambassador) by accomplishing expiation through the ordinance of baptism and the bloody death which he underwent' (compare p. 210a bottom), 1 John 5:6; ἔρχεσθαι followed by a telic infinitive, Matthew 5:17; Matthew 10:34; Luke 19:10; followed by ἵνα, John 10:10; ἐληλυθεναι and ἔρχεσθαιἐνσαρκί are used of the form in which Christ as the divine λόγος appeared among men: 1 John 4:2,3 ( Rec.); 2 John 1:7. of the return of Jesus hereafter from heaven in majesty: Matthew 10:23; Acts 1:11; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Corinthians 11:26; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:10; with ἐντῇδόξῃαὐτοῦ added, Matthew 16:27; Matthew 25:31; Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26; ἐπίτῶννεφελῶν (borne on the clouds) μετάδυνάμεωςκαίδόξης, Matthew 24:30; ἐννεφέλαις, ἐννεφέληκτλ., Mark 13:26; Luke 21:27; ἐντῇβασιλείααὐτοῦ (see ἐν, I:5c., p. 210b top), Matthew 16:28; Luke 23:42 (εἰςτήνβασιλείαν L marginal reading Tr marginal reading WH text)

c. of things and events (so very often in Greek authors also); of the advent of natural events: ποταμοί, Matthew 7:25 ( R G); κατακλυσμός, Luke 17:27; λιμός, Acts 7:11; of the rain coming down ἐπίτῆςγῆς, Hebrews 6:7; of alighting birds, Matthew 13:4,32; Mark 4:4; of a voice that is heard ( Homer, Iliad 10,139), followed by ἐκ with the genitive of place, Matthew 3:17 (?); Mark 9:7 ( T WH Tr marginal reading ἐγένετο); John 12:28; of things that are brought: ὁλύχνος, Mark 4:21 (ἐπιστολή, Libanius, epistle 458; other examples from Greek writings are given in Kypke, Kuinoel, others, on Mark , the passage cited).

2. metaphorically,

a. of Christ's invisible return from heaven, i. e. of the power which through the Holy Spirit he will exert in the souls of his disciples: John 14:18,23; of his invisible advent in the death of believers, by which be takes them to himself into heaven, John 14:3.

c. with prepositions: ἐκτῆς (Lachmann ἀπό) θλίψεως, suffered tribulation, Revelation 7:14. followed by εἰς, to come (fall) into or unto: εἰςτόχεῖρον, into a worse condition, Mark 5:26; εἰςπειρασμόν, Mark 14:38 T WH; εἰςἀπελεγμόν (see ἀπελεγμός), Acts 19:27; εἰςτήνὥρανταύτην, John 12:27; εἰςκρίσιν, to become liable to judgment, John 5:24; εἰςἐπίγνωσιν, to attain to knowledge, 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Timothy 3:7; εἰςτόφανερόν, to come to light, Mark 4:22; εἰςπροκοπήνἐλήλυθε, has turned out for the advancement, Philippians 1:12; ἔρχεσθαιεἰςτί, to come to a thing, is used of a writer who after discussing other matters passes on to a new topic, 2 Corinthians 12:1; εἰςἑαυτόν, to come to one's senses, return to a healthy state of mind, Luke 15:17 ( Epictetus diss. 3,1, 15; Test xii. Patr., test. Jos. § 3, p. 702, Fabric edition.). ἔρχεσθαιἐπίτινα to come upon one: in a bad sense, of calamities, John 18:4; in a good sense, of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 3:16; Acts 19:6; to devolve upon one, of the guilt and punishment of murder, Matthew 23:35. ἔρχεσθαιπρόςτόνἸησοῦν, to commit oneself to the instruction of Jesus and enter into fellowship with him, John 5:40; John 6:35,37, 44,45, 65; πρόςτόφῶς, to submit oneself to the power of the light, John 3:20f.